Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-29
State AFFAIRS.
Pool Selling on the Senatorial Race
Said to Have Become too Risky
for Knowing Ones,
Prohibition hegis,atio8w will Have to be
Postponed Until tie Senatorial
Deadlock is. Broken.
some High Times Over Railway Matters
Promised in tbs Near Future.
Yesterdays Ballots. =
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AUSTIN, TEX, Jan. IS Mon. l.. l.
Foster, Superintf ndent OF Insurance,
Statistics and History, has returned to
the city with mis- family.
The railroad men are gathering again
at the capital. Major j. Waldo, Commits
sioner'of the Texas Traffic Association,
has returned from Houston. 1t is thought
as soon as q senatorial choice is made,
there will be some high times over rail
road matters. 1t is known that seVeral
members are loading oratorical guns with
anti-railroad ammunition.
1t is evident that all prohibition legis-
lation will nave to be postponed until the
deadlock in the senatorial race is broken.
The movement to bring it up yesterday
did not receive much encouragement
"The wheels of the Gods grind slow
but sure" as in the case of Legislative
aid for the drouth sufferers. Though the
bill yesterday failed to pass under sus-
pension of the rules requiring it to
be read three several days before passage,
it will meet no more opposition and Will
become law after taking the regular
course.
The ladies of Austin, by their united
efforts, thave raised S4l5 for the drouth
sufferers. They will buy food and clothing
with this sun, and forward to ministers
living in the districts affected, to be dis
tributed where it will do the most good.
Pool selling on the senatorial race has
become too risky for the knowing ones
who thought they Were on the inside and
were betting or dead >ure thing.
The results of tO-dsy's joint balloting
for United States Senator leaves the stu
alton practically unchanged. Only two
votes were taken when Senator Pope
made a motion that the Senate withdraw
to their chamber, which was carried by
only one majority. The eleventh joint
ballot being the first ballot to-day
showed:
Reagan .......... Observation-Disclosures. IS
Ii Gland ....-.------ .--..-'...S5
The twelfth joint ballot showed:
Mexey so
Reagan Observation-Disclosures. -...-.-.-.-...-O4
Ireland 81
It's evident that while the Maxey and
Irelsnd men show q determination to
stick to their respective candidates first,
last and all the time, there is common
grouLd upon which they meet, and that is
to force an adjournment whenever they
consider it unsafe to risk another vote.
The present situation shows that
Maxey and Ireland are running
negative race. It is not so much
question as to Maxey's or Ireland's
chances as it is whether they can hold
their forces in hand long enough to pre-
vent auy pc. sibility of R-agan's election.
The race is now nearing the point when
dark horse csn enter and carry
away the prize. AS evidence
of this some Of the members
are becoming very restless, and the names
OF Culberson, Shepherd, Wellborn and
Gibbs ere suggested as possible Key to
unlock the situation.
Terrell's friends make no secret ofplac-
ing him again in nomination if the pres
ent situation continues. They claim that
he can 60 in with fortv-fOur votes in the
House and the same Senate vote that he
carried on the first three Joint ballots.
The situation is bee ming very interest
ing, and entirely cODjectural, and the re-
suit can only be determined by waiting.
There are about five or six unsettled votes
that neither of the candidates can claim,
whose movements are watched with
anxiety, for if they could be united on
any one candidate it would give him
hopes Of success.
MIR Cooper, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, accepted the resignation of
Miss AmbercomDie as professor Of music
and cslistheniCs in the Sam Houston
State n Irmal school, to-5ay and appoint
ed Mss Mary Brooks TO I'LL the vacancy.
The fol owing charters were lied in